Bug 59073 – Malayalam text not rendered correctly on mathrubhumi.com

• Status: NEW
• Component: Layout and Rendering

[BijuGC]

Created attachment 90486 [details]
mathrubhumi_sf.png

Version: tested on latest version of Safari on Mac OS X Snow Leopard,
         not tested on Webkit nightly 

http://www.mathrubhumi.com/ site wont display properly on Safari, 
But works fine on Firefox Nightly with Mac version of Rachana Font
from http://sites.google.com/site/macmalayalam/

Steps:-
 1. Get a new Mac with out any Malayalam font installed
 2. In Safari go to http://www.mathrubhumi.com/index.php
 3. User see mathrubhumi_sf.png 
    --- ie, the Malayalam complex letters "not displayed" properly.

 4. goto 
    http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:To_Read_in_Malayalam#For_users_of_Mac_OS_X
 5. Download and Install Rachana Font for mac
 6. Run Firefox (I used nightly)
 7. In Firefox go to http://www.mathrubhumi.com/index.php
 8. User see mathrubhumi_fx.png 
    --- ie, "properly" displayed Malayalam complex letters.

 9. Restart Safari
10. In Safari go to http://www.mathrubhumi.com/index.php

Result:-
Again Safari dont display correctly.

[BijuGC]

Created attachment 90489 [details]
mathrubhumi_fx.png

I assume the culprit is the new CSS @font-face syntax

  @font-face {
    font-family: Meera;
    src: local('Meera'), url('/new09/Meera_04-2.ttf') format("truetype");
  }

There is no way to specify OS, 
and I just learned the *.tff supported by Linux and Windows 
may not be supported in Mac !!! Mac need its version

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

I can confirm that this page is displayed the same (presumably broken) way in Safari 5.0.5 and nightly r84360 on Mac OS X 10.6.6. Both use the Meera_04-2.ttf TrueType font automatically downloaded from the web, but Firefox 4 fails to use it, so all it gets is boxes with numbers. 

I don't know how much of the problem is WebKit fault, and how much is the Meera_04-2 font fault, given that Firefox refuses to use the font even if I download and install it locally. I didn't attempt to install the other font you mentioned, since that probably wouldn't affect Safari anyway.

[BijuGC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I didn't attempt to install the other font you mentioned, 
> since that probably wouldn't affect Safari anyway.

if you add Rachana Font to your mac it will be chosen to display 
http://ml.wikipedia.org/ there every thing looks perfect.